Nathan Clumeck also wonders regarding humanity’s ability to react to the emergence of new zoonoses expected due to global warming. The fonte du permafrost raise fears of the appearance “viruses or bacteria imprisoned for tens of thousands of years and that we do not know regarding”. This lack of knowledge can save time for the spread of a virus.
So is a new confinement inevitable in the years to come? This measure, already used in the Middle Ages or during the plague of 1720 in Marseille, might still be applied. On one condition according to Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases at ULB.
“There is containment for political purposes, as in China, where it borders on complete absurdity, and containment as the ultimate means of protecting the population, in the absence of other means. From the moment we had vaccines, treatments, we no longer need to confine. Maybe we will still have to confine ourselves in the future, but it all depends on what virus or bacteria we will be facing. Fight once morest confinement in the name of freedom, I can hear it, but it is always necessary in public health, to balance the interest of the population and the individual interests “.
